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A dog may be man’s best friend, but for Brian Benson his seven-year-old yellow Labrador Magnus is more like his lifeline. A dog lover since childhood, Benson originally adopted Magnus about five years ago as a family pet but noticed
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White Plains Hospital is planning to construct a new, state-of-the-art inpatient building on Davis Ave. where a parking garage currently exists. During a special White Plains Common Council meeting Feb. 27, Bill Null, chairman of the hospital’s Board of Directors,
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Among the unsung heroes of healthcare in this era, or really any generation, are the nurses who provide the necessary care and comfort for countless patients. Betty Velez, a 35-year Yorktown resident, has been answering the calls for more than
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When Christine Dennett began volunteering in guest services at the Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley in Valhalla in 2015, never did she think she’d soon become a guest resident of the House herself. But 15 months later,
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“She wasn’t able to participate in mainstream programming due to the differences of the pace and the environment. She was overmatched,” said Dias, a Scarsdale resident. “But they noticed when they played with her at home or in the yard,
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Amidst widening backlash, Optum Tri-State’s new CEO sent a letter to patients on Monday outlining steps on how the company plans to improve service at the local healthcare giant, including adding available physicians and clinicians. From social media posts, in-person patient rants,
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Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States, like many Western countries today. It’s a point that’s driven home every year, it seems, in February, which has been established as American Hearth Month.
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Hundreds of Pace University students crowded into the Gottesman Room at the Kessel Student Center last week to sample lavender aromatherapy, taste stir-fried organic mushrooms or sign up for on-campus gardening. The event was the school’s inaugural Wellbeing Fair, held
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Steven Lansman, MD, PhD, has been named Chair of the Department of Surgery at New York Medical College School of Medicine and Director of the Department of Surgery at Westchester Medical Center. Dr. Lansman had served as interim surgery chair
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Anybody who watched the Jan. 2 Buffalo Bills-Cincinnati Bengals football game on national television got a firsthand glimpse of the urgency of quickly administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR to someone in cardiac arrest. Seconds after Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin collapsed to
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